Security Issues and Software Vulnerabilities
From time to time, Alchemy Mindworks releases software updates to deal with security issues. This sounds a bit scary – with good reason in some cases – and as such, it probably deserves an explanation.
Regrettably, the world includes a substantial number of flakes, idiots and malevolent swamp-dwellers who spend their mean little lives trying to attack the computers of the rest of us. When they’re successful in doing so, they can:
- Install malware to steal personal information, such as credit card numbers and banking passwords.
- Connect the afflicted computers to botnets, such that they can be used to attack other networks.
- Encrypt the files on your hard drive and demand a pile of bitcoins for the key to decrypt them.
- …and probably a lot of other stuff we’d rather not know about.
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